James Hooper
Best Selling Author: "How To Grow Out of Asthma As Quickly As Humanly Possible - The Buteyko Manual"
“ The Original DIY Program for Buteyko Workshops From The Instructor With 12,000 Successes. ”
First edition 1996
Hi, I'm James Hooper. It's great to see you!
In what feels now like the very far distant past I turned my week-long Buteyko Workshop into first a spiral bound Manual and Workbook, and then later versions into a traditional book (as you would find as a best-seller on Amazon.) The first version was in 1996.
The book was written quickly to get people off my back who wanted training, but could not get to Townsville for a live workshop. It was written to be as simple as possible - so that your 4 year old child or your cranky father-in-law with emphysema could follow it - and do the drills. (People with emphysema generally have a short attention span due to their breathing - so it had to be simple!) Over 400,000 downloads of the "Free Buteyko Instructions For Children" which was a chapter from the first edition showed how effective the simplified version could be.
Welcome to this old website. It has been sitting for a long time, and is getting a refresh now as I prepare to release my Emphysema Bootcamp and Asthma Bootcamp programs. These are 21 Day Challenges - designed to take people on the path that has been proven to significantly reduce symptoms and need for medications. The Bootcamps are not "everything you will ever want or need to know", they are just the VERY BASIC items that will get you to a far better place, fast.
In earlier times I believed that getting rid of your asthma symptoms was just simply a sensible thing to do. In the past few years there has been significant research showing that NOT getting rid of "active" asthma as it is called by doctors - can increase your probably of getting emphysema/COPD by 1700%.
Research shows that between 25% and 50% of emphysemics never smoked.
Asthma is NOT just a mild inconvenience. It is an inflammatory condition, and has long term consequences, one of which is emphysema. You can choose to "keep" it and "manage it", or you can choose to undo the symptoms.
If you are a bit stuck and wondering if this is possible, then consider the facts about people "growing out of asthma" (usually in teenagers unless doing a program like this), and people getting "adult onset asthma" later in life.
I also suggest that if any doctor claims to "not know what causes it" any condition, then carefully consider the weighting of their suggestions on how to "treat" it.
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Book Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Help for Asthmatics!
Reviewed in the United States
on August 5, 2013James Hooper has generously been in correspondence with so many of us asthmatics, and notably, me over the couple of years that I have known about the Buteyko method. He has a simple way of communicating in this book that facilitates a study and application of the steps needed to see this thing work. My asthma went ballistic in 2002 resulting in a severe and deadly case of Churg-Strauss Vasculitis. After chemo and 3 years of rehabilitation I am alive, though suffering from damage to my hands and feet...go figure! The asthma triggered an immune response that nearly killed me. After that, I continued to struggle with the asthma, until I read about the Buteyko method through Patrick McKeown, and later James Hooper. I highly recommend the approach, and wonder why modern medicine refuses to study this. It is not an easy approach. One has to be committed to incorporate a new lifestyle...closed mouth, tape over the mouth at night, no heavy breathing, and regular exercise.
My damage was severe (the vasculitis affected my lungs as well), but I am slowly seeing an incredible change. I didn't like the allusion to looking stupid if I had my mouth open, but it is true, and I suffered all my life from folk who weren't very kind about that.
However, I couldn't breath as the sinuses were usually solidly plugged. They are now most always open. I highly recommend that asthmatics get serious about this as asthma can result in an auto-immune crisis! It is work to change, however, the benefits are well worth the battle to learn to breath right!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read if you have asthma.
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2016I purchased this book almost 20 years ago.when the cover looked like this:
At the time I was using three inhalers. I was using my rescue inhaler a lot. I can't remember how many times a day, maybe at least 6 times.
Using this book I eliminated two of my inhalers and reduced my rescue inhaler use to once a day or less. And then I can go days without using it.
All these years passed and I'd like to say Thank You, Mr. Hooper.
Using this book I eliminated two of my inhalers and reduced my rescue inhaler use to once a day or less. And then I can go days without using it.
All these years passed and I'd like to say Thank You, Mr. Hooper.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It really works
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2013If you put the time and effort into this you start seeing results rather quickly. The problem I had was once I was breathing better, life caught up with me and I had excuse after excuse, not to do the breathing, I'm now back on all three inhalers and decided to pick the book back up so I can stop being on the inhalers again. It was working for me, but I was the one who stopped.
My goal is to become asthma free once more. I don't like being restricted like this again. I'm off to do the breathing.
Update: I have now been doing the breathing again for the past few months and have shown significant improvements I went from taking the inhalers up to twelve puffs a day, down to only needing them once or twice a week. I can sometimes go weeks at a time without needing them but as the weather changes it makes breathing difficult until I'm able to get used to the weather change then I can go longer without the need for the inhalers.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2013
on August 9, 2013There is so much good information here, even if you or members of your family do not have an asthma problem. I am now constantly trying to practice the techniques suggested to increase the carbon dioxide that my body retains.
Now I understand why this is important and how it will help anyone to keep breathing passage ways clear of mucus and obstructions.
Most informative book.
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Chapter 1 - The Cause of asthma
Despite the vast array of reasons that people believe cause asthma, there is only one that is common to all. If this one cause is removed from the list which includes dust mites, dust mite droppings, dust, smoke, stress, exercise, atmospheric changes, food, odors, and many other “triggers” becomes mostly irrelevant.
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